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Old 12-December-2008, 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by montebianco View Post
Sorry, but I've read way too many great big steaming bowls of economic woo theory served up in OTB by people calling themselves scientists to think that scientists will 'inject "evidence-based decision making" into public policy' any more than anyone else.
Almost every scientist I've heard speak on public policy has been sure that a massive increase in funding for more research into whatever it is he researches would be the best thing that could happen for the country.
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